Unless the context specifically and clearly indicates otherwise, the meaning of terms and phrases used in this Part 3A shall be as follows:
BUILDING SEWER - the sewage drainage system from a building constructed on any improved property to the lateral serving such improved property, including any grinder pump or pressure sewer or similar apparatus or facilities installed by the Township or the owner and which are located on such improved property.
COMMONWEALTH - the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
IMPROVED PROPERTY - any property in the sewered area of this Township upon which there is erected a structure intended for continuous or periodic habitation, occupancy or use by human beings or animals and from which structure sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes shall be or may be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENT– any improved property located in this Township, used or intended for use, wholly or in part, for the manufacturing, processing, cleaning, laundering or assembling of any product, commodity or article, or any other improved property from which wastes, in addition to or other than sanitary sewage, shall be discharged.
INDUSTRIAL WASTES - any and all wastes discharged from an industrial establishment, and/or wastewater having characteristics which may have the potential to be detrimental to the sewer system.
LATERAL - part of the sewer system extending from a sewer to the curbline, or if there is no curbline, to the property line, or if no such extension is provided, then “lateral” shall mean that portion of, or place in, a sewer that is provided for connection of any building sewer;
OWNER - any person vested with ownership, legal or equitable, sole or partial, of any improved property.
PERSON - any individual, partnership, company, association, society, trust, corporation, municipality, municipality authority or other group or entity.
SANITARY SEWAGE - normal water-carried household and toilet wastes from any improved property.
SEWER - any pipe or conduit constituting a part of the sewer system, used or usable for sewage collection purposes.
SEWER SYSTEM - all facilities owned or operated by the Township, as of any particular time, for collecting and transmitting sanitary sewage and/or industrial wastes discharged by an improved property, other than a building sewer or a lateral.
SEWERED AREA - geographic area or areas of the Township served or to be served by the sewer system and designated, from time to time, by the Board of Supervisors of the Township.
STREET - includes any street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley, public way or public square.
TOWNSHIP - the Township of Penn, Centre County, Pennsylvania, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, acting by and through its Board of Supervisors, or, in appropriate cases, acting by and through its authorized representatives.
(Ord. 74, 5/5/2005, Art. I)